Just something to note: 8 ounces of coconut milk has roughly 500 calories. So if you do go that route, your āhealthyā ice cream will come in around 1,000 calories. I would highly recommend not doing that.
I work night shifts and my body temp can often drop at the back end of the shifting, leaving me to ācraveā all sorts of crap and something hot to warm me up.
If you have time for prepping ice cream, you have time to prep a small hotpot/stew or some form of soup. Easy to sub out 350cals (a gross underestimate here I think) of hot junk for 350 cals of a cup of something nutritious.
I live in the north and find that hot tea or coffee warm me very well when itās cold out, with no sugar (I donāt use it). Sure, you need calories, but those can come from anything. I sometimes bring a baggie of cooked chicken pieces with me to work and just grab one when I need it. You could have it in your pocket, if itās chicken breast rather than thigh, which I think would be too messy.
Lately I bring a whole cut green pepper for afternoon snack, as Iām just trying to get through the day and home to dinner. It feels filling because itās so crunchy and big-seeming. It wouldnāt be what Iād bring for the cold, though.
Iāll suggest you go back and skim the 1st 50 posts of this log. It is virtually interchangeable with the bad habits/foods and excuses and āwill do better tomorrowsā.
If your not going to at least give it a fair try why even bother logging? Everything is just a jumble of thoughts, random foods, cals and workouts. Nothing makes sense or is listed in a way that you can track.
I applaud your honesty here. Carry that forward with your intentions to not eat them.
The beef stew is an excellent choice.
You have an incredible spouse. This ranks as one of my favorite books on training. I might actually re-read it again, since youāve brought it up. I like Jimās basic take on nutrition as well.
This sounds like a much better day, if I were to tweak Iād probably up the egg quantity for breakfast and double up the protein shake (single scoop approx 30g powder by the looks of it?) I go two scoops every time, rather too much protein than too little particularly when trying to lose weight.
Keep it up and youāll be a new you this time next year!
Is this vending machine? Gotta break free from that. A homemade sandwich of bread and turkey with some mustard would have been a much better option.
Just an FYI
1g of protien is 4 cals. You ate 14.2cals of protien in that sandwich. Thatās only 56.8cals out of the 509cals in that sandwich. Thatās only about 11% of the cals coming from protien. The rest is fat and carbs. Very similar to eating pizza. High carb/fat, low protien. You need to shoot for higher protien spread across your meals. This will assure your eating the right foods. Try to shoot for a 40%protien/40%carb/20%fat ratio across all of your normal meals. Snacks are fine to have a shake that is all protien or protien/carb or protien/fat. Protien needs to be the driver in all meals with cabs and low fat or low cabs and a little fat. Carb/fat heavy meals are a no no.